The sad thing is that they didn't have these indie games day 1. Divekick should have been on the xbox 360 but it wasn't because of their outdated policies. The reality is that all of these indie games that Sony is getting for the PS4/PS3/Vita should just be on the Xbox platform. It's not like they are really pushing the boundaries that far graphically, yet they aren't their because of antiquated policies on Microsoft part that they are only reversing because of Sony's stance.

While I am glad to see that Xbox One users will be able to enjoy these games on that platform, they should have just been their day 1. The fact that they weren't is a failure on Microsoft part, but I am glad to see they are correcting their mistakes.

That is so true. So many examples of that happening like Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy, Mass Effect, Bioshock, Grand Theft Auto, Dead Rising 2, Lost Planet and those are just a handful of the big ones.

MS came out of their pocket and put up funds to have Titanfall..Why are people making it seem like EA just gave the game to MS for nothing?3rd party software won't be exclusive unless one of the big 3 opens up their check books and cough up the funds.

@ohohoho Considering that Microsoft is getting all kinds of preferential treatment in the form first access to BF4 dlc, exclusive content for Fifa and Madden and the timed exclusivity of Plants vs Zombies garden warfare its safe to say Microsoft gave them a lot of money..

Well it did get low scores from most critics out there. Check out its meta and game rankings scores, I think it's somewhere around the 60's mark. Anyways I was so hyped for this game, I thought it would be an indie gem.

See, Divekick could have been a cool, even virally popular game. Where they went wrong was they made the game's story and characters a satire of not the fighting game scene, but of the fighting game TOURNAMENT scene, which is a tiny tiny subculture in and of itself. which means, no one outside of that scene is going to understand the "jokes" and parodies of the game outside of about 1,000 people.

The humor is very obnoxious as well. It's mostly jokes about Capcom and people you've never heard about and won't bother to look up.

Had they just created an original story and characters this game would have appealed to a wider audience. but instead they chose to feed their own ego, which i guess comes with the Indie game territory.

i'm glad this is happening, not that i'll likely get those indie titles, but for other ones that may eventually come to xbox one... then again i'll be getting a PS4 for infamous so i'll have the option either way but for those that are loyal to one brand it gives them a chance to help the indie scene out

So wait with this new all Sony has left is what it announced for 1st party that are exclusives! No wonder they say PS4 has no games. At least Microsoft has AAA executives from 3rd parties! Lets see that list again

Well, I'll call out Guilty Gear, and the next BlazBlue. I'll call out ArNosurge, and whatever Level 5 is working on(makers of Ni no Kuni). I call out whatever Quantic Dream's working on, and GUST, and NIS. I call out Dynasty Warriors, possibly including Gundam.

@IcicleTrepan yea, thats apparently not going to be the case anymore, hence why they were mentioned. guilty gear xrd has been announced for ps4 and ps3, no xbox announcement, and a good chance there wont be one since the new blazblue coming out in march is ps3 exclusive as well.

Look why would third party developers not want to sell their games to more people? Pretty much they would have to be paid by a console maker to make a game exclusive . There are already few third party exclusives last gen.

This is no surprise. Sony made it clear that they said "coming FIRST to PlayStation." EVERY single announcement for these indie games they said that, very few did they say were actually exclusive. This isn't MS, its Sony. They know what is exclusive and what was timed, and they don't pretend both mean exclusive.

I'm a PS gamer predominantly, & Divekick just never piqued my interest... It really looks like one of those games that provides a few hours of fun, but then, like a extra heavy drinking session, you instantly regret the fact it stole your money, & HDD space.

@Hakoom....Dude, there's a lot more games on PS that should remain exclusive....& the same applies to Xbox & Nintendo. God Of War, Halo, Mario, to mention 3 biggies. But, with a company like ND, they are like Insomniac, & if Sony doesn't treat them like the royalty they are for PS consoles, then like Insomniac did after Sony assisted Resistance 3 sales failures, then ND could easily jump ship & go multiplat or elsewhere exclusive. Hope not...but who knows, I never expected Insomniac would jump ship, like they did, as they have been Sony/PS exclusive since PS1.

i love indie games but divekick looks terrible. i'm not a graphics person too much, but it looks like those cheap advertisements that pop-up when you're surfing the net. i can appreciate good art style, throwbacks to 8-bit, and all that good stuff, but divekick just flat-out looks like lack of talent.

@Shoryu...Oh, OK, I must have missed the memo that Sony had bought ND.. Not sure how I missed that bit of info, so your right in that aspect...But as you said, the developers can leave, just like whay happened with RARE when they left Nintendo for MS, half the staff left & opened Free Radical & they released THE BEST, MOST FUN console shooter off all time with the Timesplitters series, while Rare went down the sh1tter quality wise & released that turd PDZ.
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So, I guess in reality it doesn't matter about a developers name & logo, it is the staff that make the sh!t hot games, & just like Zampella & co of former Actitivision fame, if you don't give the guys the props & rewards they deserve....they'll just bugger off in numbers & start up a new studio. The difference with Sony as opposed to Activision, MS is that Sony give a MASSIVE amount of creative freedom to there developers....I just really hope Sony try bringing back some of the 1st parties that money woes forced them to shutdown, teams like Zipper, Team Soho, London Studios, Cambridge Studios, Lightbox Interactive, 989 Studios, 989 Sports...I want to see the PS1 glory days return, where nobody could compete with the amount of 1st party developed quantity & quality of games, & 3rd party as well....That also includes the PS2 era to a degree, but PS1 just seemed to have more diversity, more innovation & just more of everything in general, whereas PS2 had already started to delve into the FPS heavy focus, due to Halo's success. Why can't we have games like Medievil, Primal, The Getaway, Wipeout, Twisted Metal, The Mark Of Kri, Crash Bandicoot, Jak & Daxter, Blasto, Destruction Derby, etc, etc, along with the usual boatloads of COD's & COD wannabe's? The sad part is, I just asked that question, knowing full well the answer, the even sadder part is the actual answer, being that only a minority of us will buy a game of Ico's quality & uniqueness over a new COD, Fifa or Madden, & saddest part is that console gamers have become gaming retards, only able to keep the attention span going for a soccer, football or me-too shooter storyline... Anything deeper than that, or that strays from those gameplay formulas has modern console gamers scratching there heads with stunned faces, tongues hanging from agape mouth, looking like primates in a zoo enclosure.